Compassion

Four Noble Truths

1. Birth, aging, illness, and death bring sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief, despair, uneasiness, unsteadiness, disquietedness.

2. The reason for these bad feelings is seeking delight here and there, craving, and lust.

3. Cessation of craving, the giving up and relinquishing of it, freedom from it, nonreliance on it reduces suffering.

4. The Eightfold Path is the road to reducing craving.

Eightfold Path

1. right view,

2. right intention,

3. right speech,

4. right action,

5. right livelihood,

6. right effort,

7. right mindfulness

8. right concentration